Town Meeting, Nantucketís annual exercise in participatory democracy, begins Saturday, with 107 articles up for voter approval. They include more than 30 suggested zoning changes, the $67 million municipal budget and $12 million in big-ticket capital spending, and a proposal to change the makeup of the townís architectural review board.

Town Meeting begins at 9 a.m. in the Nantucket High School auditorium on Surfside Road, and is scheduled to last until 5 p.m. or until all business is concluded. If itís not finished by 5 or shortly thereafter, the meeting will be continued to Monday at 6 p.m. in the auditorium. No quorum of voters is required for the meeting to begin. There are currently 8,494 registered voters on the island, town clerk Catherine Flanagan Stover said.

The one-day Town Meeting was first tried in 2012 as a way to address the scheduling challenge of Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Passover and Easter all falling within the first nine days of April, but returned to Monday evening last year due to other scheduling conflicts.

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